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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 5h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 3h

What does “raised in the civil rights tradition” even mean when you talking out your ass and dodging questions to avoid accountability for your inaction?

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · May 22

I hope everyone understands that this means that many people who are undocumented will no longer come to any court hearings on any matter.

Not as a litigant, not as a victim, not as a parent, not as a witness.

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · May 22

"At New York's Varick Immigration Court, ICE agents on Wednesday began checking the documents of everyone who left."

"They are indeed checking individuals off lists and attempting to detain them once they leave court."

"Immigration courts should be spaces of justice — not traps."
#USA #Deportation

ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests

The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of past limitations — and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.

theintercept.com

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 3h

You know his neighbors clown him.

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 3h

Talking about fighting in the trenches? Gtfoh.

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 3h

He is a total loser.

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Dmitri. #freeLink @momus.bsky.social · 3h

His changed his name to William Bradley when Booker put him in one of his commercials, but he was Al-Mustafa Shabazz of the Newark temple when he acted as the trigger man. Abdur-Rahman Muhammad is an excellent historian, if you read him, his evidence is overwhelming.

Who Is Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, From The New Documentary 'Who Killed Malcolm X?' | Oxygen

An in-depth new docu-series on Netflix raises questions about the official story of the February 1965 assassination of black activist Malcolm X — positing that his killer freely walked the streets in ...

www.oxygen.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

You really have to watch the whole thing. Booker clearly had no idea he was going to be asked real questions.

The Anti-Cult Club

YouTube video by I've Had It

youtu.be

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 3h

The interview is incredible and really highlights that Cory Booker is a sack of shit with no real convictions aside from staying in office.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 3h

Really just been marinating on this.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5h

Same time that Pritzker is telling city and state officials to start arresting and prosecuting federal officials for assaulting Illinois citizens.

OT1H, this is clearly really bad.

OTOH, our federalized design might end up being an absolute godsend.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 11h

‼️ I never liked his incredible music being reduced solely to the “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” video. The Voodoo tour caused him a lot of pain.

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: “D'Angelo felt tortured, Questlove says, by the pressure to give the audience what it wanted. Worried that he didn't look as cut as he did in the video, he'd delay shows to do stomach crunches. He'd often give in, peeling off his shirt, but he resented being reduced to that. Wasn't he an artist? Couldn't the audience hear the power of his music and value him for that? He would explode, Questlove recalls, and throw things. Sometimes he'd have to be coad not to cancel shows altogether.

When I ask D about this, he downplays his suffering. Watching him pull hard on another Newport, I realize that he finds it far easier to confess his addictions than his insecurities about his corporeal self. Self-destructing with a coke spoon—while ill-advised—has a badass edge. Fretting over what Questlove has called "some Kate Moss shit" seems anything but manly. If given the chance, he tells me, he would absolutely shoot the video again. But he does admit to feeling angry during the Voodoo tour.”

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: "’One time I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage, and that made me feel fucked-up, and I threw the money back at her,’ he says. ‘I was like, 'I'm not a stripper.' He was beginning to sense a darkness beckoning. He recalls a particular moment onstage at the North Sea Jazz festival in 2000. The band was in the middle of ‘Devil's Pie,’ his song about the spell fame casts upon the weak—Who am I to justify / All the evil in our eye / When I myself feel the high / From all that I despise—when he felt an ominous presence in the crowd. ‘That night I felt something that was like, whoa,’ he tells me. E-vil.

On the last day of the eight-month tour, Questlove says D'Angelo told him, ‘Yo, man, I cannot wait until this fucking tour is over. I'm going to go in the woods, drink some hooch, grow a beard, and get fat.’ Questlove thought he was joking. I was like, ‘You're a funny guy.’ And then it started to happen. That's how much he wanted to distance himself."

While the tour was a success, both critically and commercially, it left D broken. ‘When I got back home, yeah, it wasn't that easy to just be,’ he says. ‘I think that's the thing that got me in a lot of trouble: me trying to just be Michael, the regular old me from back in the day, and me fighting that whole sex-symbol thing. You know: 'Hey, I ain't D'Angelo today. I'm just plain old Mike, and I just want to hang out with my boys and do what we used to do.' But, damn, those days are fucking gone."

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 15h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 9h

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 7h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 7h

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 10h

Plant-based protein powders tested as having the highest levels of lead. It is unclear if this is from the soil or from the manufacturing process. Also, the 1994 deregulation of supplements both created the modern industry and leaves us all at risk.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 15h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 10h

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

“By late September, ICE agents were visiting more than 130 work sites across the District —construction zones, restaurants, hospitals and schools. Landscapers, caregivers and kitchen staff — the invisible backbone of Washington’s daily life — were detained in the name of “law and order.””

Trump's Crackdown Turns Immigrant Workers Into Targets

New statistics reveal that many of the arrests made during the "crime emergency" in D.C. were immigration-related, not violent crimes.

www.washingtoninformer.com

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 11h

Hey remember when Lawler and his flunkie Republican trolls tried to weaponize anti-semitism against actual Jewish people like me?

Yeah, fuck off forever.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 10h

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home.

Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.

If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Donate to Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid, organized by Michele Hays

If you are on social media and live near Evanston, IL, you ma… Michele Hays needs your support for Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid

www.gofundme.com

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